Readable Draft Writing in Restaurants

I hope you are as fascinated by the novel writing process as I am.

I'm taking 2 classes (1 on Query Letters to Lit Agents and one on World Building in Fiction). Getting an editor lined up, workshopping one of the chapters.  Very exciting.

My goal this month is a readable draft.  I have the structure, and 250 pages of scenes, notes, and things to write.  I want to send out the first 50 pages to my editor asap.

I've published several short stories and plays, but getting together a giant chunk of something (with a full time job plus travel) is tremendously difficult. But rewarding!

Writing a Novel Continues

A little while into this book, I've been writing some of the main stories for years, in my head, but am HAPPY, GLORIOUSLY HAPPY, to pick up the thread and keep going with binding them together.

A few moments of doubt, I could stop now and nothing will happen, but then I think about that and I keep going.

Because I have stopped before.  And I see the ending in the distance for this one.

FAR

Sometimes places seem farther in memory than in distance.

NYC is too far from me at the moment.

A Dream of Escape

A dream of escape.

Here in the Northeast in America, we are under a cold snap.

Since Christmas, we have been suffering with below zero temperatures and into the predictable future (according to the iPhone).

And then, with or without a cold (which I have), we are essentially trapped indoors.

I've been lucky to have a writing project to take me out of myself.

The BEST vacation I can ever have. 

Brooklyn Label is BACK!!

The sunny rooms, the bar, even my favorite nook for meals is open and BACK on the corner of Java and Franklin.  (I even had a dream about it!)

It was given a new life, thanks to its new proprietor:Alex Russel, who used to bring us delicious dishes at Le Gamin, down the street!

http://bedfordandbowery.com/2017/08/greenpoint-resto-brooklyn-label-to-be-revived-with-some-help-from-le-gamin/

He's even digging into the history of the building, Mae West's old haunt.  Learn something new everytime you go (including how marvelously crowded it can get, even if it's still newly reopened)


Be in LOVE! Be very much in love with this new spot!  

Getting a Sunburn in October

Sometimes, there is nothing more glorious (and foreboding) than to be able to enjoy a Brunch on a sidewalk cafe in Brooklyn, in a sun so strong that you are suffering from the glare.

No sunglasses, no shade, just direct sunlight, and when you get back, slightly drunk from the peach bellinis, you notice that your skin marks the lines where your clothes cover you.  And it is not dirt.  If summer hadn't been so recent, you wouldn't know what it was.

Grilled Cheese Avocado and Ramen

Funny, I had SUCH cravings for the above.

I didn't even realize how much until I ate it and then had a sense memory of what was going on.

Also for brunch.  Also for Korean food, but I left that all out this time.

It's the food of Greenpoint, of a different home.

Even of work, Eatsa and Poke Salads.  Ah, tuna!!

How I missed it!!